LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keel Boats
RETURNED SAFELY At 8.45 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar and that four local fishing boats were still at sea. At 9 a.m. the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Photos
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ferry Interesting!
British Channel Island Ferries Captain Neil Vardy (right) presents Peter Hoiness, the RNLI's corporate fund raising manager, with a cheque for £845.50 watched by Chief Purser Eddie Wilkinson.
The money was raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bognor Regis Branch
Landing an lllb 9-V4OZ eel cannot be the easiest thing in the world, but 11-year-old Barry Davies (I) managed it and won £100, a fishing rod and other prizes by beating all comers at the Bognor Regis Amateur Angling Society's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Friendly Rivalry: Kim Robertson (Right) Challenged Mick Hewitt
Friendly rivalry: Kim Robertson (right) challenged Mick Hewitt to a 100 yard electric wheelchair race along the promenade as part of Walton and Frinton's lifeboat week. The race was started by a hooter blown by Coxswain Denis Finch and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gemma Craven
Gemma Craven - Ma Larkin in the production of The Darling Buds of May1 at Poole Arts Centre - draws the winning tickets for the 71 st RNLI lottery. With her are Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Welcome
Her Majesty The Queen, Patron of the RNLI, is pictured meeting crew members at Tower Lifeboat Station on the River Thames on 24 February.
Meanwhile congratulations to Coxswain Robin Castle (Sheerness), Coxswain Francie...
Category: Articles
Two B.E.M's.
Coxswain William Swankie, of Arbroath, who won the bronze medal of the Institution in February, 1940, for going to the help of a barge which wa» being bombed by a German aeroplane, and Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down,...
Category: Articles
Alauda
WEYMOUTH, DORSET.—During rough weather, the wind blowing dead on shore with a heavy sea, on the 26th February a message was received from the Coastguard stating that a large foreign ship, which afterwards proved to be the Alauda, of Hamburg,...
A Boat (3)
Happisburgh, Norfolk. At 6.45 p.m.
on i2th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board would capsize if her crew attempted to beach her. At 7.7 the IRB launched in...